Timpview blanks Orem

PROVO — It takes the right ingredients for a team to play a little out of sync and still win 30-0.

First you need a defense that allows just over 100 yards of total offense. Add in a running back that grinds out about nine yards every time he touches the ball. Throw in a quarterback that is as elusive as a roadrunner and makes big plays out of nothing. Stir it all together and you have Timpview's shut-out win Friday night over the Orem Tigers.

"I didn't think our offense in the first half was really in sync," Timpview coach Chad Van Orden said. "We moved the ball, but our passing game was completely out of rhythm."

So what does Timpview do when the passing game is just not quite as sharp as normal? Give it to fullback Harvey Unga. The powerful senior carried the ball 19 times for 160 punishing yards in what Van Orden called "a great display of running."

Those numbers are even more impressive when compared to Orem's combined offensive numbers, about 60 total yards in each half. Timpview defenders Matt Reynolds, Greg Atkinson and Taylor Barrett were good for a few sacks of Tigers quarterback Nate Jones and only allowed a couple of double-digit gains. The Tigers managed only nine first downs and never got inside Timpview's 30 yard line.

"They came out and just shut down the running game," Van Orden said. "That's a pretty quick defense and they're going to make a lot of offenses look bad."

Timpview's quick and speedy quarterback, senior Stephen Covey, did his share to give the T-Birds some cushion in the second half.

He scrambled out of trouble several times and also broke lose for a 29-yard touchdown run in the third quarter and sealed the game with a 7-yard touchdown scamper in the final period.

"Covey makes plays. If he's not our quarterback a couple of those plays don't get made," Van Orden said.

Timpview scored first by marching 68 yards in 11 plays on its first possession to set up a 26-yard field goal by David Jackson. Unga had five carries on the drive and Covey turned a sack into an 18-yard gain.

After Orem punted, the T-Birds made it to paydirt from 58 yards on seven plays to go up 9-0. The capper was a 17-yard toss from Covey to Andrew Badger in the end zone on the first play of the second quarter. Unga had a 20-yard gain on the drive and Covey again scrambled for 18 yards.